Potato-eyeing machine



May 20, 1924. 1,494,617

E. E. MESSLER ET AL.

POTATO EYEING MACHINE Filed June 6. 1923 Patented May 20, 1924..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST E. MESSLER, OF BRADLEY BEACH, AND GEORGE M. HULIGK, F ASBURYPARK, NEW JERSEY.

POTATO-EYEING MACHINE.

Application filed June 6,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, ERNEs'r E. MESSLER and GEORGE M. Human, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Bradley Beach and Asbury Park,respectively, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Potato-Eyeing Machines,of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the provision of a very simple,efficient and inexpensive tool for domestic use whereby eyes may beremoved from potatoes. The invention provides a device which will notrequire any manual manipulation by the user who needs only to hold thepotato against the working part of the device. The invention isillustrated in the accompanying drawing and will be hereinafter fullyset forth.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view, partly in side elevation and partly in verticalsection, of an apparatus embodying our invention, and

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

In the drawing, the reference numeral 1 indicates a table or othersupport upon which is rigidly secured a bracket 2 adapted to support anelectric motor 3 which may be of any standard type and which may beemployed for other purposes when not needed in the practice of ourinvention. The motor shaft, indicated at 4, has secured thereto. in anyconvenient manner, a shank 5 carrying at its outer end a bit 6 which ispreferably of tapered or conical form, as shown, having two radiallyalined cutting edges and spaced but adjacent entering points. Disposedabout the said bit is a housing 7 having a vertical back wall 8 whichfits closely about the motor shaft 4 and having a longitudinallyextending wall of arched form, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, the entirefront of this housing being open and the housing being secured upon thetable 1 in any convenient or preferred manner.

1923. Serial No. 643,654.

In using the device, the operator holds the potato in such position thatthe eye to be removed will be in contact with the points of the bit 6and presses the potato against the said bit as the latter rotates. Theeye will be very quickly cut out from the body of the potato and anyjuices which may be liberated will be splashed against the walls of thehousing '7 and Will be thereby prevented from spattering upon theclothes or hands of the user. The device will operate very quickly andwill consume a very small quantity of current inasmuch as the motor maybe very small and, in fact, may be of a type driven by water power orother source of energy.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: 1

1. In avegetable corer, a rotary bit having two cutting edgesdiametrically alined, said cutting edges being of conical shape havingtheir apiees spaced apart and situated in the diametrical plane of thecutting edges.

I 2. In avegetable corer, a rotary bit having two cutting edgesdiametrically alined, said cutting edges being obtained by splitting acone-shaped bit along an axial plane and spacing the apiees of the twocone halves, so formed, apart in said axial plane.

3. In a vegetable corer, a rotary bit hav-Z ing two cutting edgesdiametrically alined, said cutting edges belng obtalned by splitting acone-shaped bit along an axial plane and spacing the apices of the twocone halves,

so formed, apart in said axial plane, an open front housing surroundingsaid bit, said bit having positive connection with a prime mover.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

ERNEST E. MESSLER. [us] I GEORGE M. HULICK. a s]

